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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

ease, which still torments me. 1 have
abandoned all wines for the last three
weeks" said he, land hope in due time
to get the poison out of my system"
Do not infer that wine is the only
cause of the rash. A friend, who was
suffering from this disease, called upon
physician in Naples who is a pro-
fessor in the University of Naples, and
Il member of the leading scientific So
cieties of Great Britain. He told her
not to use any red wine, and to use the
light white wine only sparingly. She
replied that she used no wine at all.
"Ah!" said he;~ somewhat surprised, for
he assumed that she used wine; but
i Immediately added, with evident salts.
faction: $50 much the better" This
answer shows the opinion of one of the
best authorities in Italy upon the neces-
sity of using wine in that country.
1t is only fair to add that while al
most every one drinks wine in Italy,
intoXication is less common than with
us. This is probably due to the weak
ness of the wine used, to the fact that
this weak wine is drank slowly at the
table in connection with food, and to
the lethargic life of the people of
Southern Europe and Asia. But with
the awakening of the new national life
and the increased activity of the peo-
pie in Italy, drunkenness is on the in
crease. Saloons without food, but
with drinking bars and strong liquors,
are being introduced. Instead of the
use of wines proving barrier against
stronger drinks, under the new pres
sure it opens the door to them. Excess
sive drinkers are increasing, and are
transmitting depraved appetites to
their children. The most thoughtful
and conscientious people view with
alarm the late increase of intemper-
ance. While no evangelical church in
Italy disciplines its members for mod
crate drinking, some of the most con-
secrated Christians are adopting total
abstinence, and the clearest headed
say that the liquor problem will yet
perplex Italy as well as England and
America.-L " BaShord. in N y
Voice
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

north, will make the shelters warmer
instead OF less warm. 1t is easy
enough to prevent the windows from
being broken by the animals. by plac-
ing bars across them. The eyes of
animals kept in dark shelters are
weakened, and when brought out into
the sunlight, especially when there is
snow on the ground, the eyes are in
jured. Not few of the cases of de-
fective eyesight or of even total
blindness among horses are produced
in this way.-Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
TEMPERANCE.
THE TEAR OF A CHILD.

My home-yes. it's bright and clean, sir,
And XII tell how il came to pass:
IT wasn't my work OF doing at all
It's a;l due to that little lass.
j was going straight down to hell. SIR
And az through the curse of the drind;
How treated poor Mary, my wife, SIR,
God knows can't bear to think.
I didn't bqow as loved her
Till the Wild dark night she died,
When fGHnd her lying SO cold and still
And that newborn child by her side.
The little lass, she has grown, sir
Last June she was eight years old;
And what she has been 10 me, SIT,
Can never on earth be tod.
When kid, there was no one to mind her
But woman as lived next door;
And she, being given to drink. too,
Let her fall one day on the floor.
And ever since the poor creatur'
Has been lame with crooked knee;
So I'd often lift her up in my arms
To take her about with me.
For really loved the poor mite, sir,
And her sweet little eyes of blue
Was as blue and as bright as her mothers wor
And they looked me through and through.
One night was off to the public
I'd been drinking already-'two late,
And took little May to carry her,
But couldn't walk quite straight.
''Oh, daddy, don't go"' she whispered
But quicllened my drunken pace,
Aud L said. Not another word young un,
Or I'll give you a slap in the face"
/ was brutal, sir-I know it;
But the devil was in me then,
And when he gets hold of US with the drink
We are only brutes-not men.
And the little lass, she wor quiet,
But felt a hot tear fall;
And it seemed to burn right into my hand,
Though she wiped it off with her shawl
Straight into my soul it entered
1t melted my hardened heart;
50 Said:i "Tll go home, lassie.'
That night l made new start.
Now, every morning and evening
kneel, and with heart sincere
l bless my God for saving a soul
BY the touch of little ones tear
Tile Quioer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
INDISPUTABLE FIGURES.

Destruction of the Liquor Business Con-
sidered in the Light of Material Pros
perity.
Laying aside the argument of sober
life with its clear mind and healthy
body, and considering the destruction
of the liquor industry only in the light
of material prosperity, what would be
the result?
The records show that the people of
this country spend every year for
liquors the sum of 5000, 900, 900, and for
other things as follows:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24
Total for six Legitimate industries. s.. aos OOot

Total Tor SIX legitimate industries 81, 9S 900 900
Nearly half as much is spent annual
ly for this one article of liquor as for
all these other articles put together. 1t
is self-evident that if this sum of $780,
900, 600 was not spent for liquors that
1t would either be saved to the persons,
directly, who spend it, or else it would
be saved indirectly by spending it on
these legitimate articles. An exchange
for these things is not a waste, for it is
only a substitution of values. These
great industries that amount to little
more than twice that of this huge lq-
uor trade, if it were abolished, would
receive into themselves the enormous
bulk of 5000, 900. The millions of
people who are now able to spend only
1908, 600, 600 for legitimate articles of
use every year would be able to spend
81, sos, 600, 900, even if they had no
more work or better pay than before,
and this without cramping them near
as much as to spend the 81, 908, 000 900,
for the reason that the direct saving of
$500, 000 900 would also be the means
indirectly of saving 5000, 100000 more
in the form of taxes and bene-
factions The success of Tenn
perance principles would enable
the people to save $780, 900
every year. In other words, this i'm
mense sum, sum great enough to
extingush our National debt in twelve
months, would be exchanged for the
different forms of property, and not
for ruin and death and the chances OF
finding habitations in the infrmarics,
asylums and penitentiaries. In adj
dition to this vast annual amount that
would be diverted into legitimate
channels Of trade, there would also be
the immense capital now invested in
the liquor traffic. The brewers, dis
tillers and saloon-kecpers have now
invested in their business 81, 200, 000,.
600. This would not be all lost. Soma
part would probably be lost exchange
ing into legitimate industries, but
$1,000, 600, 900 at least would be saved,
and it alone would give honorable en-
ployment to four times as many men
as it now does. Giving the people
power to have the use and benefit of
$1,000, 900, 900 annually more than they
do now, would create n demand that
would take an almost ineXhaustible
supply to fill, and the demand for
labor would be so great that it would
enable it to dictate its own terms.
j. Ross, in Current.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

Mr.. James Keegan had bargained at
Prince Edward Island for a horse, the
price to be $175, and was just about to
hand over the money when he remarked:
"The halter goes with the horse, of
course; l have none with me-" The
halter in question was an old one, worth
perhaps forty cents. 40, no, replied
the owner, ''if you want the halter L
want my pay for it." This was too
much for our genial friend Keegan,
and quoth he: "How much doyou want
for your old halter?" "Seventy-fve
cents" was the reply. "All right"
said Keegan. Here's your seven5y-fve
cents; that's just such a halter as I've
been looking for" And as he passed
over the change he quietly TOOK off the
halter, put the $175 back into his pocket.
stepped into his buggy and rode away,
leaving his oyer-grasping owner to-
lament the loss of good sale, and to
get home his bridleless horse as hest ha
might.-AugHSta me-. Nc30 Age,
The starching process was brought
= 4 4
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

The starehing process was brought
into use in England by people from
Flanders who came over to London and
taught the art for to.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

The various computations of the
amount spent yearly in this country
on liquor are very curious. One
speaker at a temperance meeting at
Brockton, Mass, the other night, as
serted that from the sum spent every
year on liquor u thousand one
dollar gold pieces might be put on
each word in the Bible, and that even
then there would be $50, 0G0 to spare
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-24

IT is announced that the superin.
tendent of the Schuylllill division Of
the Reading railroad has directed the
summary dismissal of any man who is
reported to have been seen drinking
even single glass Of beer or spirits,
even when off duty - CAriSLian Inion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

r. 7. Burr writing to the Vernon
Condenser from Yuma, Arizona,
under date of May IL, 1887, says:
"1t is the custom of the Yuma, as
well as some other Indian tribe of
this Territory to burn their dead
and everything belonging to them
and to the family, the camp and
all the provisions included, and to
kill all the live stock. A death
leaves the whole family destitute.
The consequence is the Yumas are
kept wretchedly poor, and until
this superstition is gotten out of
their heads they never viii be
otherwise. This of course does
away with i'll feeling or wrangling
among heirs of the deceased over
the estate. Having some curiosity
to see one of their cremations. /
had a fine opportunity yesterday
morning, and was not slow to make
the most of witnessing the cere-
mony over Pascual, the aged chief,
who had reigned over the tribe
since the first adventurous pale
face" had come among them"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The N. O. States draws the line
betwixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-
dee very fine when it attempts to
argue that the papers which COM
ment unfavorably upon the record
of Gen. Nichols deal in pure and
sufferable criticism, while those
papers which comment upon the
record of the present administra-
ton deal only in abuse and revil-
ings! Of course it don't make a
bit of difference with the States
whose OK is gored.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

APPoINTMENTs.-Mr g. II. Har-
will has been appointed by the gov
ernor as justice of the peace for
ward two. vice G. w. Bruce, who
has resigned. We are told that
Mr.. c. H. Teal, who is now absent
in Texas, has been appointed by
the governor to represent Grant
parish in the Interstate Farmers
convention, which is to meet in
Atlanta, Ga, on the 10Th OF
August proximo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

In the prospective railroad from
Little Rock our Alexandria friends
have something worth rejoicing
over, but we trust they will not be
thrown into "connipshuns" at every
little bob-tailed affair Bros. Biossat
and Mac attempt to lead them a
dance after.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

Senator Eustis has complimented
the CHRONICLE with handsome
copy of the Memorial Addresses
on the Life and Character of
Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States" The
book contains a fine steel engrav-
ing of Mr.. Hendricks, and the
addresses are all readable and
interesting, those of Mr.. Voorhees,
and Mr.. Evarts being particularly
eloquent and entertaining.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18
mo- 81

It is not long now before the
State and national Legislatures will
be discussing issues that are of
vital importance to the people of
Louisiana and the nation at large.
The inroads of monopoly upon the
rights of the masses, the granting
of vast bodies of public land to
corporations, the taxing of the
consumer to enrich the producer
all these are subjects of national
Legislation in which every citizen
has direct interest. In the regu-
lation of State affairs there are
always important problems press
ing for solution. The lien law
the ranking of privileges on crops
the public debt the convict lease,
the game law, and a thousand other
minor details are all of the most
vital interest to the people. The
attention of the farming element
should be especially turned to
these matters and we think the
Alliance and the Union can do the
whole State an inestimable service
by concert of action ON these
matters.
Our suggestion, then, is this
Let the Organizations named take
definite stand upon public issues
as they arise, and instruct the rep
resentatives of the people how they
must vote to enhance the interest
of agriculture, and thereby aid
every line of business, for to the
soil must we finally go for all
progress and prosperity. A de-
pressed agricultural interest means
depressed business everywhere.
By taking q lively interest in public
affairs mot in politics, as COM
monty understood the Farmers
alliance and Farmers union can do
the State and the nation the
greatest of service while at the
Same time remaining within the
bounds of conservatism, and doing
nothing to engender class feeling
or class distinctions
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18
Reunion Of Veterans.


q. MAUUDcR La xmo HI
AZ = maat;n0 "a fha rrde.,.;c,,~d
comm;ttao ers,o;rte5 = ~ -
s,s.;a- e .4I. 49,, -,
ua'ou " vos s neio y Mos-
&ome!ys orant per11ns ON mo 1Veh
day OF August 1885, charged with
the duty of selecting the time and
place for the annual reunion of
the veterans, at which the follow
ing members were present: d.
Pierson, ]. n. Mccain. H v. Nc
Cain, j. +. Kelly, r. G. Jones and
Will A. Strong, the following reso-
buttons were introduced and unani-
mously adopted:
LIST. Resolved. That the merit animal
reunion Of veterans be hold At NatcIli-
ts'ches on Monday the 9th day Of
A1gust. 1927.
"a. g., keeotvea, Inas she good people
rs.;sIs ts"ss srs oHr.s1ss wnS
and amer or;sed - psrs ~ -. rs.sss
sary arraneements for carryipr out
these resolutions.
Sd. Resolved, That the newspapers
10 the vicinity o. natchitoches b re-
q"0s'so = PuO''i p,v sesos re css;s
Hcss.,s
RI JOINS.
IF. KELLY,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The representatives of the State
press who met in Lake Charles
last Tuesday had a fine time gen.
orally, and we can but feel regret
that our business engagements
precluded our attending. These
annual reunions are most healthy
for the average rural editor, where
he meets his brother editor with
whom he has engaged in wordy
war. (and half way begun to dis
like for his very obstinacyl) only
to find him a whole-souled fellow
with his heart in the right place.
Success to our State Association,
and may it continue to grow in
influence.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The celebrated Hamilton Gam
brell trial at jackson has ended in
Hamilton and Eubanks being COM
mitted to Jail without the benefit
of bail. Albrecht was released on
5000 bond, and Hardy and Figures
were discharged.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

A monument erected in honor OF
the Louisiana soldiers who fell in
the great siege of Vicksburg, was
unveiled in that city on last Satur-
day, 18th instant Thousands of
persons we're present to take part
in the ceremonies.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

Wednesday, the 18th of August
next, has been fixed, so we learn, as
the opening day OF the State prohibi-
ton convention, which will meet in
Alexandria. Some of the most distin-
gnished ladies and gentlemen engaged
In the temperance cause in the South
will attend the convention. The ladies
of the w. C. T. u, of this town, will
call on citizens soon and make arrange
ments to take care of the delegates
during their sojourn among us. and we
trust that every one asked to assist
will cheerfully comply, and commence
fattening their chickens. About so or
20 delegates are expected. Talk.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The war department, by direc-
ton of President Cleveland, is pre-
pairing to return to the different
Southern States the battle flags
and standards taken by the Fed
eral forces during the late war.
They are all properly labeled, and
no trouble will be experienced in
effecting a correct distribution of
them. The correspondence of the
secretary of war with the different
Southern governors on the subject
has evoked expressions of cordial
and wholesome patriotism. 81
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

It il dangerous to eat cherries
with the great, they throw the
stones st yonr head.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The U. s. Supreme court va
cancy is said to be within the grasp
of Secretary Lamar if he wants it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The. need Of merit Tor promotipg
personal comeliness, il due to ]. G.
Aver & Co., whose Hair Vigor il q
universal beautificr Of the hair. Harm
lees, effective, and agreeable, it ranks
among the indispensable toilet articles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

Courage, the commonest Of the
virtues, obtains more applause than
discretion, the rarest Of them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-18

The best manure is under the
farmers shoe.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-12
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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-12

man began 10 accumulate leSeHds-li1e
of our earliest history-down
to the present time, the poets have sungof
the flowers and to them, and the philoso-
pliers have loved to illustrate many a les
son by them. There is something in the
heart of man that warns him to the flow
ers, more especially so, where his soulhas
not been greatly contaminated by the hard
ening influences of the world. All child
rem love flowers, from the little naked
savages in Africa to these brought to light
amid the effeminating i%nflences Of the very
hot-beds of eo-called culture and c~ivillza-
ton. These bright gems that studd the
bosom of mother earth in the genial spring
time, and bask in the glowing warmth OF
the summers reign have been likened unto
the stars. Goethe's saying that "t1owers
are stars of the earth" gave rise to the fol-
lowing beautiful lines from the pen of our
immortalized national poet-Longfellow.
"spake full well, in language quaint and
olden,
One who dwelleth by the cassled Rhrine.
When he called the flowers, so blue and
golen,
Stars that in earth's armament do shine.
"Stars they are, wherein we read our his
tory,
AS a%strologers and seers of ED,
Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery,
Like the burning stars which they be-
held.
"Wondrous truths, and manifold as won
drous,
God hath written in these stars above:
| But net less in the bright hoWerets under
us
Stands the revelation of his love.
bright and glorious is that revelation,
Written all over this great world OF ours,
Making evident our own creation
In these stars of eartb-these golden
flowers"
DR.. Darwin, that great scientist, address
sing the stars said:
"Fowers of the sky! ye, too, to time must
yield,
Frail as your silken sisters of the field"
The German poet, Rampach, says:
"The stars show fairly in the darksome
night:
They gem like flowers the carpet Of the
sky"
And, listen to the words of Firdusi, the
Persian poet:
"The bright sun sank down into the ocean
The black night followed in haste;
The stars came forth like flowers,
And heaven was like a GARDEN
The study Of Nature has an enabling inhu
ence upon the soul; it stimulates the mine
to the requirement Of useful knowledge;i
warns the heart and makes a man love hi
fellows and all things created, by bring
ing him into close intercourse with tn
Creator, through His works. Therefore
it is a noble study and worthy the consid
Grafton Of all.
Montgomery puts into the mouth of hi
dying Brahmin these beautiful words, $
worthy of remembrance:
"All that inhabit ocean, air, or earth,
From one Eternal Sire derive their birth
The Mind that built the palace of the sky
Formed the light wings that decorate a iy
The Power that Yields the circling planet
round,
Rears every infant f1owe'ret in the GROUND
That Bounty which the mightiest being
share,
Feeds the leaseGnat that glides the ever
ing air"
F. W. ANDERSON.
~ yaf THNE I'D
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-03-12

President Cleveland has now
entered upon the third year of his
administration. One half of his
term has expired and there are a
good many in the democratic party
who wish that the remaining por-
ton had. 1t is very certain that
many democrats have strong dis
like to the present administration
of national affairs. 1t is true that
so per cent Of the republican office
holders have been turned out, but
the "very thirsty and very hungy"
democracy can see no reason why
the rest should not also be made to
walk the plank and give their places
to them. So long as single Office
is filled by person other than a
democrat many of them will be un-
happy and denounce the president
for retaining in service those sup
posed to be hostile to the admins
tration. But with all the dissatis-
faction now expressed he will be
renominated for the very qualities
now condemned. The democrats
knew that a true democrat could
never have been elected and they
deliberately set up one that they
knew did not represent their wishes
and after electing him have been
grumbling ever since.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-03-12
RECORD OF THE SESSION.

The forty-ninth congress COM
menced it's session on the 4th day
of December, 1885, and was in ses-
sion until the 9th of August, when it
adjourned until December 9th and
continued in session until the 4th
of the present month, covering a
total period Of ten months and
twenty-six days. During this time
there we're introduced in the house
1928 bills and 263 joint resolu-
tons. In the senate 1857 bills
were introduced and 11S joint res
olutions. The total number OF
laws enacted is Appropriated at
1882. Fifty bills failed to become
laws owing to the adjournment OF
congress, There were 1872 bills We
toed by the president, or twenty
one more than had occurred from
the foundation of the government
down to the beginning of the 49th
session. But two bills were passed
over the presidential veto during
the session. The death roll of the
49th congress was unprecedented,
comprising thirteen members.